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scholars
Facebook Status Update of the Night
James Franco: "Only the douchebags at Columbia would dare take a picture of me sleeping in class." Andy: "Why is that?" James Franco: "I sleep at NYU all the time and no one bothers me." [Columbia Student Andy Nguyen's Facebook] -
college
Obama Defuses ASU Honorary Degree Controversy With Disgusting Humility
Here's some of Obama's address to graduates at Arizona State University, America's leading institution of higher learning for twats, where he stated that he "hadn't done enough in my life" to warrant an honorary degree. More »
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Comment by tigolbitties: wait, why was he speaking at ASU's graduation? do people have to accept all the invitations to be commencement speakers... 8 Responses | Other threads
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murder
The Class That Got a Wesleyan Student Killed
If Johanna Justin-Jinich hadn't taken "Sexual Diversity in Society" at New York University in 2007, she might be alive today. Her ex-classmate, Stephen Morgan, is in custody after allegedly shooting her at Wesleyan University's bookstore. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Cecil's Wielder: Wow, 11 pages of writing, way to make 'em work for it NYU. 9 Responses | Other threads
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school daze
NYU to Poors: Go Away
Did you know that it costs $54,000 to go to NYU for one year and learn how to be a failed revolutionary? Because of this, the school is "encouraging" poors to go fuck themselves. More »
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Comment by hamburgerhotdog: NYU isn't really academically strong enough (with the exception of certain programs, most of which aren't undergraduate offerings) to merit... 28 Responses | Other threads
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the kids today
NYU Students We Actually Like
Two reasons to enjoy Nyle's video "Let the Beat Build": 1) It was shot all in one take with live music, and 2) refreshingly optimistic lyrics about creative ambition in the New Depression. More »
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Comment by Motoko Kusanagi: THIS is impressive:+ Watch video All I hear above is pointless rhymes and sloppy levels. Sorry...just being honest. 7 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
UAE Sheikh in Crazy Torture Tape
Look what has 'surfaced:' a video of the brother of the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates torturing a man. The torturer's brother is a great friend to NYU! More »
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Comment by Heneage: But at least the good ole US of A doesn't torture people. Oh, wait...what was that? 15 Responses | Other threads
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hard workers
Overworked James Franco Sleeping His Way Through Grad School
How does James Franco manage to take classes at both NYU and Columbia while penning a book while keeping his acting career going? Evidently only with lots of naps. More » -
celebrity science
Celebrity-Only Book Industry Comes Dangerously Close to Publishing 'Writer'
Permasmiley celebrity Columbia writing student James Franco is going to have a book of his short stories published by Scribner. This, strangely, is the least ridiculous book deal we've written about this week. [Fox]
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: I dunno. I think I prefer a bacon-encased sausage log to the abilities of James Franco. 11 Responses | Other threads
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crime & punishment
NYU Kids Forced to Go Back to Class on Monday
The 18 NYU kids who occupied the Kimmel center got their just desserts: one week suspensions for all! More »
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By PareeneComment by uninspired: Taking a deal instead of facing a hearing isn't very reflective of the Che Guevara t-shirts you know at least... 4 Responses | Other threads
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shut up, college
The Painfully Ridiculous End to the NYU Revolution
The final, farcical moments of the failed Revolutionary NYU Food Court Occupation were caught on film by one of the protesters. And then shown to the world, despite being—by any standard—incredibly embarrassing. More »
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Comment by oboesqueaks: I'm so glad I went to an engineering school that didn't bother with any of this bullshit. We may... 15 Responses | Other threads
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school daze
NYU Food Court Revolution Crushed
After last night's clash with cops, a hardcore band of dead-enders continued to occupy the NYU student center food court, for Democracy. But it sounds like it's game over now people. The Man wins! More »
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: What kind of college suspends students? Do they give out demerits and assign detention as well? 11 Responses | Other threads
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conflicts of interest
NYU Protest Leader Calls Times Reporter 'My Boy'
Funny story: You know the New York Times story this morning on the protests at NYU? Written on the laptop of one of the protest leaders, by her "boy." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Nice Beaver: In a later Twittering, she quoted Georges Jacques Danton's famous proclamation "At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme... 1 Responses | Other threads
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breaking
Police Clash With NYU Protesters
We have reports of a street confrontation between NYU protesters and cops starting around 1 AM, the deadline set for demonstrators to leave the campus food court they occupied. Twitter seemingly confirms: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by gawkimo: What I don't understand is why these students are taking sides in Palestine. And I don't mean against Israel, but... 2 Responses | Other threads
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school daze
Let Us Consider The NYU Twerps
What leads kids from urban-suburban/indie music settings to get their SDS on and "take over" a cafeteria with a list of demands? Should we mock them, or pity them? Well, we should mock them, yes.
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By PareeneComment by PrettyNotPretty: I'm as mocking as the rest of you all, but frankly, I only met one person in my 4 years... 26 Responses | Other threads
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crises
Vegan Lunch Dilemma Brings NYU Revolutionaries to Brink of Explosion
We are closely following the breaking news at the student-occupied NYU food court, where protesters are fighting for Palestinian solidarity. The most important issues so far: vegan lunches and cigarette breaks. Things are getting tense! More »
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Comment by bringmemyTofu: Um, you took over the building. Just smoke a fucking cigarette. 12 Responses | Other threads
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direct action
Revolution Strikes the NYU Food Court!
Not to alarm you sheep out there as you go about your bourgeois activities this morning, but you should be aware that that the NYU student center food court has been occupied by revolutionaries!! More »
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Comment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Can we plz have photos of the "attractive rebels" of which you speak? 10 Responses | Other threads
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money
Madoff Robbed Beloved Actors, Reviled University
The list of Ponzi ponce Bernie Madoff's victims grows ever longer, and ever famouser. Kevin Bacon and his beautiful wife Kyra Sedgwick! And poor, impoverished New York University. More »
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Comment by CodePink: Did I ever tell you about the time I helped Kyra Sedgwick with her costume changes for a play? True... 7 Responses | Other threads
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wantrepreneurs
Hubert Chang, not Al Gore, invented the Internet
When NYU Ph.D. student Hubert (Hung-Hsien) Chang wasn't busy inventing Google or visiting Disneyland and signing up for Google-related groups on Facebook, he was coming up with lots of crazy ideas. Cross-platform programming language Java? Chang. Open-source office productivity software OpenOffice? Chang. The semantic Web? DHTML?Tim Berners-LeeChang. All this and more he tossed away to finish his Ph.D. at NYU, which he finally accomplished in late 2002, as he explained in the video. Or 2003, as he explained on his archived homepage, below. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by Goose Spruce: I know I already said this before, but I would like to repeat myself. LOOSER!!!! no seriously. LOOSER!!! 2 Responses | Other threads
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hiring
Facebook bribes NYU coeds with gum
Facebook is going on a 20 university, 5 business school tour of the nation looking for fresh meat. Yesterday's stop was NYU, says a Valleywag spy. "Of course I grabbed some free sandwiches and the best part: FACEBOOK GUM!" Interested? The spy says it "seems like they are extremely interested in programmers that speak multiple languages." Since Facebook gets its users to translate the site for free, we're betting the Facebook recruiter actually meant programmers should know the following languages: More »
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Comment by Shadowlayer: Of all that, only PHP and glibc are useful. Anyway, why theres no Objective C? more » | Other threads
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commenters
NYU J-School Staff Now Just Trolling 'Columbia Journalism Review'
Above, Jay Rosen, former NYU journalism department chair and current faculty member, leaves a mean comment on some story at the Columbia Journalism Review. Hah. Very professional, Jay. Let the J-School War Commence! Our money's on Jay and his merry band of new-media rebels. Those CJR kids are too earnest and "concerned." Click to see the comment! [CJR, hat tip Hunter]
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By PareeneComment by Puns-n-Roses: @Illuminatus: Good idea to be at the bottom. Kids get hurt up at the top. Actually, no I suppose they... more » | Other threads
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college life
Thanks For Boning, Ma And Pop!
Harvard law professor Larry Tribe at NYU's commencement: "Think about it — if your mother and father had watched yesterday's equivalent of The Wire instead of making love at just the right moment, you would not exist. So thank mom and dad for doing it. Your being here is an implausible, miraculous, serendipitous event." [YouTube]
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By Ryan TateComment by scroll_lock: @Bell County: Yay! Another one on the team. more » | Other threads
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In Brief
Long Island City Safe from NYU Expansion (For Now)
"The city's Economic Development Corporation had been 'pushing' N.Y.U. to look at expanding in Long Island City... However, she said, the university doesn't feel Long Island City is developed enough residentially as of now to be a fitting expansion area for N.Y.U." As of now. Queens residents, lock your doors. [The Villager via Curbed] -
journalismisms
NYU Journalism Kids
Woof! Our plagiarism dog is on the case, sniffing out copying. Journalism students at NYU are launching NYU Local, a "24-hour" campus news blog, and are plagiarism trouble already. An article from the official campus newspaper, Washington Square News, was on their site as a placeholder before pre-launch. But they put one of their writer's bylines onto the article, which has since been removed but is More »PlagiarizeDon't Plagiarize? -
recession watch
NYU Freezes Hiring In Face of Coming Economic Meltdown
New York University announced a plan last Friday to save $25 through an administrative hiring freeze and restructuring. While the school announced the plan in the name of efficiency and passing the savings onto the students, a memo from NYU President John Sexton placed the blame squarely on NYU's "high ratio of dreams to resources," also calling out "a world where financial markets are in turmoil, the US economy and currency are weakening, and our elected officials are raising serious questions about higher education." Not to mention that today's generation of high school students has never even heard of Felicity, and the Olsens have been gone for years. Details of the hiring freeze at NYUNews, Sexton's full memo after the jump. More »
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By PareeneComment by mitchel_stevens: @loserface: she went in 200...5? 06? she's there now. waiting. more » | Other threads
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julia allison
All Available Evidence Points To Julia Allison Liking It Raw
Star talking something Julia Allison recently shared that it wasn't until she was 24 that she first enjoyed the pleasures of a vibrator &mdash "huge mistake, btw." The prompt for this admission: Julia Allison's recent speaking engagement at the NYU "Sextravaganza!" (There is no audience on Earth to whom she will not overshare.) A tipster writes in to say she repeatedly asked the presenter to whip her. After Julia's past brushes and bruises with Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko, we predict she'll be showing her prized welts to any group of six or more by week's end. Full tip after the jump. More »
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By rebeccaComment by IronSheik: I'd spank her so there's no bruising on her little hiney. On that tight, pert, little hiney.... I have to go to... more » | Other threads
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conversations
Overheard On Third Avenue
NYU GUY: "Hey guys, STA Travel. That's the travel agency they use in 'The Real World.'" NYU GIRL: "This is the real world."
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Comment by cdcollection: The quality of conversation there proves why STA caters to students: so easy to gouge! more » | Other threads
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fire!
ABC7, our favorite source for ridiculously overblown breaking stories, actually did wait until The View ended today before reporting that MANHOLE FIRES had KNOCKED OUT POWER in Greenwich Village, INCLUDING NYU. Which means like one law school dorm and a bodega on 3rd Street. PANIC! Is it terrorism? Sabotage from underpaid Indian foundry workers? Too soon to know but we say YES!
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By PareeneComment by Ogiri W Surie: @IndianSlipper: Repairs will require a Tool Box. And perhaps an Anvil. more » | Other threads
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a sad day for freshmen
Vegan temple of soy mediocrity Zen Palate on Union Square is being replaced by a Jeffrey Chodorow backed Fatty Crab offshoot. NYU kids living in Carlyle, U-Hall and the Palladium will have to find some other place to get gooey overly sweet chunks of seitan to quench their munchies after smoking copious amounts of pot even though what they really want is a cheeseburger from Veselka but this cute hippie girl from Bethesda, MD who they're trying to get with and who is the whole reason they're smoking pot in the first place—though it makes them horribly paranoid and they have a ConWest paper due tomorrow—is, duh, also a vegan. [NYT] More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by City_Dater: Judging by how long I've had to wait for a table recently, the artfully unbathed little shits found Curly's Lunch... more » | Other threads
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unsurprising turns of events
Hey NYU Kids: Life Is Good! Stop Throwing In The Towel!
Yet another student at N.Y.U. has killed himself, this time in a Water Street dorm. The school has abided by the family's request not to send out a notification email to the entire university in order to protect their privacy, but apparently, such sensitivity does not apply to speaking to the school's newspaper, which university spokesperson John Beckman, who may or may not be paid some sort of suicide-and-pot-princess overtime, did quite readily.
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By MaggieComment by NYUvsTXgal: As an NYU student living in the Water Street dorm, I felt compelled to comment. As I was leaving on... more » | Other threads
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unfortunate comparisons
NYU Student Announces World-Changing Knitting Project
A grad student at NYU's Steinhardt school, working on a project called "The New York Institute for the Humanities", recently sent friends and colleagues a letter alerting them to her group's upcoming workshops. It is a letter in which she coined and employed the wrongest analogy we've heard in, like, a week (the internet equivalent of years). More »
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By PareeneComment by Bradley Saucier: I never like to discourage free expression, however, I am sure the brilliant students at NYU could come up a... more » | Other threads
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kids today
NYU Students Forced To Take Unreliable Transportation!
How bad are things for the beleaguered scholars of New York University? This bad:It takes more than a caffeine fix at Starbucks for Tisch junior Priya Shelly to make it to class. As a resident of Water Street residence hall, Shelly relies on university buses—the vital link between faraway residence halls and the Washington Square campus in operation since the late 1990s—in order to get to class. But buses that are crowded, frequently late and take convoluted routes have made Shelly's commute a constant inconvenience. "Sometimes, the bus doesn't show up at all," she said.
Nooooo! But it gets worse! More »
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By abalkComment by fortqueenmean: Geesh--is it so rough to waddle up John Street three short blocks to get to the train station? I guess... more » | Other threads
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back to school
The N.Y.U. Swarm Is Changing Our City's Aural Landscape
From the mailbag, a Facebook-loving reader sends this screenshot and writes: "One of these things is not like the others... do you think there's any correlation between #4 and N.Y.U. being back in session?" Yes.
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By Emily GouldComment by CherrySoda: @cherryicecream: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the fact that Radiohead and the Beatles are topping Coldplay on NYU's own... more » | Other threads
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back to school
The NYU Swarm Is Upon Us
Hey, have you tried to walk down Third Avenue above St. Mark's lately? I say "tried to" because it is almost impossible. The strip is swarmed with seventeen year olds, walking six abreast on the sidewalk and talking very loudly about, usually, Facebook or dialectical materialism. Or, if it's late at night, being comically caricature-of-drunk. Or, if it's early in the day, walking a few steps ahead of their parents who are carrying their boxes, as if this will trick passerby into thinking that they and the older people who look just like them are unrelated strangers. Like the first rubescent leaves in Tompkins Square Park, the NYU hordes are an early harbinger of Fall in the East Village. Unlike the leaves, however, they are so fucking annoying. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by itsyaboy: A little update on the situation: Yesterday my girlfriend and I were deep in the NYU trenches after a lunch... more » | Other threads
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campus revolutionaries
N.Y.U. Kids To Free Paris Hilton
Says the person who's organizing Thursday's rally (during commencement?) in Washington Square: "Even if you don't love her, you have to admit that 45 days in one of L.A.'s most dangerous female prisons is not a fair punishment for neglecting to renew your license. This is about the freedom to do what you want vs. overly conservative judges coming down hard on anyone who likes to party." Oh, so that's what this is about! Or is it? Some N.Y.U. students would beg to differ. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by shanaisapunkrocker: This NYU student begs to differ. more » | Other threads
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campus scandals
N.Y.U. Student Ex-Prez Defends Frolicking Ethics
According to now-former N.Y.U. College of Arts & Science Student Council President Meredith Dolgin, "the press can't seem to get anything right" when it comes to documenting the events surrounding the sudden end of her tenure last week. Know what? She's mostly correct! Dolgin got tabloid-raked through some Post-y muck for being a "renegade," "tampering with committee elections, frolicking in a pumpkin patch on the organization's dime—and helping to improperly use school funds to pay her own grandmother to speak at a symposium" in an article headlined "Student Prez's 'F' in Ethics." But on the "little known facts" page of a blog that Meredith has created in order to set the record straight, she points out that she actually got an A- in ethics. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. More »
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By Emily GouldComment by Faster: Is this a Tisch school project? Are we all going to find out later that this was just a marketing... more » | Other threads
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drama nerds
Freshman Produces Broadway Show, Annoys
Eighteen-year-old N.Y.U.ster Rachel Helson has done some very impressive work for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation: she's about to produce her third benefit performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this time on Broadway, with all proceeds going to the charity! And she's managed to recruit some A-list Broadway talent, too, like Neil Patrick Harris and Wicked's Kate Reinders. But that's not even the most charitable part. Helson, who the Times described today as "perky" (later: "Perky is almost too mild a word"), will also be generously donating her own time on the night of the performance, starring in the production as ingenue Janet Weiss. "Students at Tisch are by nature ambitious," said Tisch dean Mary Schmidt Campbell, adding that "in terms of the scale of her ambition, this rates up there 10-plus." More »
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By Emily GouldComment by TelephoneBooth: I also grew up and acted with Rachel, and I can say with full confidence that she is rich. ... more » | Other threads
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nyu
Republicans Not the Only Idiots on N.Y.U. Campus
Huh! Maybe it's something in the water in and around Washington Square. We can't figure out why else N.Y.U. students, last seen trying to catch fake illegal immigrants, or protesting said catching, would tolerate waits of up to 11 minutes for their skim dolce cinnamon half-caf lattes in the morning. Where the hell are we, Uruguay? Don't they pay tuition so they don't have to put up with this shit, man? More »
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Comment by the rat: Starbucks and NYU should hire ilegal immigrants to have more cashiers/baristas to solve the problem. more » | Other threads
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clips
13 Ways N.Y.U. Kids Cut Class Exposed!
Since five or six of you are not down at N.Y.U. right now, where a zoo has erupted around the demonstration planned by the college Republicans against illegal immigration, Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley went out to catch the scene. It's just like the 60's down there! Please enjoy the folk singing. -
nyu
NYU College Republicans To Play "Find The Illegal Immigrant"
Long despairing in the shadow of their Morningside Heights brethren, New York University students have, in recent years, made quite a name for themselves—both academically and extracurricularly! Today's announcement of an event sponsored by the College Republicans shows that the Washington Squareans have their uptown peers beat when it comes to original thought and making complicated geopolitical issues concrete. More »
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Comment by schvitzatura: Nothing more pathetic than a bunch of B&T NYU College Replugs doing the la migra LARPer thing... Preparing them well for... more » | Other threads
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